| Scientific Name: | Galium odoratum |
| Common Name: | sweet woodruff |
| Family Name: | Rubiaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Filler, Ground cover, Herb, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Sessile, Prickly, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Spreading groundcover; leaves whorled (7-9 per node), elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-3cm long x 0.7-1cm wide, margin entire and ciliate; flowers ~1cm wide, 4 white petals, scented, in corymb-like cymes, May-June. | |